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Cabinet enhances scholarship, sops for disabled
NH-20, 21 develop 7 major bottlenecks
Hectic lobbying on for HPU elections
Nominations filed
Candidates finalised for CSA poll
No unanimity on common academic calendar
Physical mapping must to destroy poppy, cannabis
Support for Annas drive continues
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Pension to be given through bio-metric system
Workshop on developing organic policy
SERC disallows expenses on CFLs
Revised gratuity issue echoes in varsity senate meeting
HC: Inspect Auckland Tunnel bridge
Cabinet enhances scholarship, sops for disabled
Shimla, August 18 The decision was taken at a state Cabinet meeting chaired by Chief Minister PK Dhumal here today. Funds shall be provided for research and development projects on disability down to the block level through various organisations and NGOs, besides universities and medical colleges. It has been decided to enhance the scholarship amount to the eligible disabled and provide day scholars with scholarships ranging between Rs 350 and Rs 750 per month and to boarders between Rs 1,000 and Rs 2,000 per month. The income limit to avail scholarship benefits has also been enhanced from Rs 60,000 to Rs 2.50 lakh per annum. Marriage incentives of disabled persons have also been enhanced substantially. A person who gets married to a disabled with 40 to 74 per cent disability will get Rs 15,000 instead of Rs 8,000 and others with 75 to 100 per cent disability an enhanced amount of Rs 25,000 from the present Rs. 15,000. In case of a couple with disability, both of them will be eligible to get the incentives. An NGO doing commendable job in the field will also be awarded a cash prize of Rs 10,000 and a citation. The Cabinet granted permission to recruit 1,293 junior basic trained (JBT) qualified teachers from 12 District Institutes of Education and Training (DIETs) and 20 Teachers Training Course qualified candidates from St Bedes College of the 2008-10 batch. It also granted approval for the construction of bus stands at Rohru and Palampur with multi-storeyed parking facilities and a shopping mall under the PPP Mode. In future the concession period in such projects will be 40 years. The Cabinet approved the proposal to exempt aerial ropeways for five years from payment of entertainment duty and to reduce entertainment duty from the existing 25 per cent to 15 per cent, besides bringing DTH under the ambit of Entertainment Duty. |
NH-20, 21 develop 7 major bottlenecks
Mandi, August 18 According to the PWD, the Chandigarh-Manali highway has suffered damages worth Rs 20 crore developing five major hazardous traffic bottlenecks - the 50-m-long Dadour, 10-m-long Sambal culvert and 100-m-long Duwar stretch, 100-m-long stretch at Nau Meel, 660-m-long stretch at Duwada between Sundarnagar and Manali. This highway bears the brunt not only of the tourists and the local traffic, but also of over 10,000 cement trucks operated by ACC cement, Ambuja cement and now the JP cements, respectively, from Barmana, Bilaspur, Darlaghat, Solan and Bagha, border of Bilaspur and Solan everyday. The influential BJP leader in Balh has put the crushing plant near the Dadour bridge across the Rati khud, which allegedly has been plundered by mining mafias feeding this plant. The flow of the Rati khud, earlier checked by boulders, is now angled towards the approach of the bridge that, in turn, has been damaged, charged locals. The Sambal culvert is blocked by debris with the nullah water flowing on the 10-m-long road that becomes risky and uncrossable for the traffic during rains. The 90-m-long stretch at Duwar, 5 km from Pandoh, almost hangs in the air along the loose hill strata making it risky for the traffic as boulders continue to fall there. The 80-m-long road stretch at Nau Meel, 12 km from Mandi, has sunk as the Beas banged the retaining wall that rises right from the riverside. Besides, the menace of falling rocks from the steep hill side looms over the moving traffic. The surging Rangri Nullah had damaged the 5-m-long culvert as debris blocked its passage. The Pathankot-Mandi highway has developed two major traffic bottlenecks. The massive landslide in the Khani Nullah washed away the 200-m-long road there and about 100-m-long road at Hara Bagh, both spots between Mandi and Joginderngar. The PWD has laid a new track to keep the road open for the one-way traffic as landslides are still active, engineer said. Meanwhile, executive engineers of national highways told The Tribune that they had sent the estimate of damages worth Rs 23 crore to the government to remove these bottlenecks. |
Hectic lobbying on for HPU elections
Shimla, August 18 With the Students Federation of India (SFI) claiming that a majority of the unopposed posts of DR were won by them, there is a possibility that the organisation could once again sweep the polls in its stronghold of the HPU. On the other hand, the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) is putting in all its might to make a dent into the SFI stronghold in the HPU. There are 2,808 voters enrolled in the HPU with girls outnumbering boys, as their strength is 1,533 as compared to 1,255 boys. However, it is the Rajkiya Kanya Maha Vidyalaya (RKMV), which has the maximum number of 3,643 voters. There are 1,053 student voters in Government Evening College and 1,622 voters in Sanjauli College. Polling will take place on August 20 and the results will be declared on the same day. Most of the student outfits, including the SFI, the ABVP and the NSUI, continued their campaigning till late in the night as they went around seeking the support of day scholar students by visiting them at their homes. They are raising demands like three more hostels, two for girls and one for boys, better transportation facility for day scholars, better internet connectivity and filing up of vacant posts of teacher. The police and the university authorities were keeping their fingers crossed to ensure that there is no poll-related violence. |
Nominations filed
Dharamsala, August 18 The nominations were filed for the posts of office-bearers, class representatives and department representatives at the college and at the Regional Centre. Students started appearing early at their respective campuses for nominations. The process ended at 11.30 am. Candidates were also given time for withdrawal of names, if any, and the final list of contestants was out at 4.30 pm. Police teams were deployed on both campuses. However, the nomination process went smoothly and peacefully. Policemen were present on the campus to control any untoward situation, said Satish Chandra Sharma, Principal, Government College. None of the nominations filed for different posts were disqualified at the college, said the Principal. The nominations filed at the Regional Centre were declared eligible for contesting and none of the candidate was disqualified. Two groups have been contesting at the centre also, the ABVP and the NSUI, with their candidates fighting for all the seats of office-bearers. |
Candidates finalised for CSA poll
Hamirpur, August 18 Contestants and student organisations have started the campaign focusing mainly on local issues related to the college. The SFI, the ABVP and the NSUI have fielded their candidates for the CSA poll being held on August 20. The SFI, which had won majority seats in the past two elections, is raising the issue of lack of facilities in the newly constructed boys hostel, besides others. Campus president of SFI Vikas Thakur said: SFI candidates are raising issues of filling of vacant posts of lecturer, improving toilet facilities, starting professional courses in the college, expanding the canteen and providing separate classrooms for the BCA course and other basic facilities. The SFI is also focusing on other issues like privatisation of education and regulating functioning of private universities, he said. However, the ABVP, which has been making efforts to snatch CSA posts from SFI, has also been raising local issues. District organising secretary of the ABVP Rakesh Walia said: Our main focus is on the local demands of the college like allotment of boys hostel, starting of professional courses, renovating college roofs to stop water leakage etc. Meanwhile, NSUI candidates are also focusing on local issues of the college like improving facilities in the college canteen and toilets, starting new professional courses and opposing opening of a large number of private universities in the state. |
No unanimity on common academic calendar
Shimla, August 18 The issue was discussed at a meeting of Vice- Chancellors of private universities convened by the Principal Secretary, Education, recently regarding compliance of the norms laid down by various regulatory bodies and the instructions of the government. There was a consensus that if the universities had to sustain, the norms of the regulatory bodies had to be adhered to, but there was no agreement on a common academic calendar. The issue of common entrance test was also discussed, but the Vice-Chancellors were reluctant to have admissions on the basis of a test. There was also no unanimity on the issue of fixing credit hours for awarding diploma and degrees but after the discussion it was decided that the universities should follow the norms of the UGC and have minimum 90 working days in each semester. They should also upload their respective academic calendars on their website before the beginning of the new academic session. Registrars of all the private universities would be the nodal officer for all concerns. It was also made clear that norms of the regulatory bodies for various courses were mandatory. No approval will be granted to continue or start a course in the university, unless norms were complied with. In case of the PhD programmes, the UGC regulations will be enforced. Violation of procedures right from admission will attract strict action and every university will be required to submit a report to the government about the step-wise procedure being adopted for admissions. Thereafter the state government will consider the case and inform the university accordingly about its decision. It was also decided that the board of management will submit its annual report to the sponsoring body and ultimately to the government by September 30 every year. The annual accounts and the balance sheet will be prepared under the directions of the board and a copy of the audited accounts will be submitted to the governing body and with its observations to the government by December 31. |
Physical mapping must to destroy poppy, cannabis
Shimla, August 18 The police is receiving satellite images of the entire area under illegal cannabis and opium cultivation, but in the absence of any physical mapping of the area, at times problem is faced in pin pointing the area whenever a destruction campaign is to be launched. In case, an exhaustive physical mapping of the area is done, the police action can be very effective. Even though the Rs 100-crore labour assistance received by the police department under MNREGA for destruction of narcotics has helped the law-enforcing agencies in getting labour assistance to reach remote areas, more funds will be required to contain the problem. We have sent a proposal to the NCB for allocating Rs 94 crore to the state for gaining better accessibility to these remote areas with the help of the GPS, satellite phones, high-altitude mountain trekking equipment and other gadgets so that we are successful in eradicating the problem, said Vinod Dhawan, SP, CID, looking after narcotics control. He admitted that undertaking physical mapping would help gain high level of accuracy as sometimes mixed identification in some species was received through satellite imagery. Weeding out of other species in these remote areas can help us in pin pointing the real poppy cultivation and make our destruction campaign more effective, he said. The police department was able to get ample amount of labour under MNREGA to undertake campaigns to destroy cannabis and poppy cultivation in the districts of Kullu, Mandi, Shimla, Sirmour, Solan Chamba and Kangra. A total of 143 fresh cases had been registered for undertaking this illegal cultivation and this included 70 against private individuals. We have registered a total of 396 cases with destruction of poppy cultivation on 461 bighas and cannabis cultivation on 54,230 bighas, said Dhawan. He added that efforts had been made to reach out to the remotest corners so that the problem could be checked. |
Support for Annas drive continues
Hamirpur, August 18 BJP activists carrying party flags and placards marched from the Bhota Chowk to the Gandhi Chowk through the bazaar raising slogans against the UPA government. They also condemned the police action against the social activists. The demonstration was led by district BJP president Desh Raj Sharma and other party leaders. Meanwhile, students of HHIM also marched to the Gandhi Chowk, where activists of the Jago Bharat Jago Manch are continuing their dharna for the third day today in support of Anna. Students of NIT also took out a candlelight procession last evening. Fast unto death enters 3rd day
MANDI: Even as Des Raj continued his fast unto death at Seri Munch for the third day today, residents, including Art of Living, Baba Ram Dev Patanjli Yog Peeth, Sant Ravi Das Sabha, traders, three-wheelers and taxi unions, staged a peaceful protest rally in this temple town in support of the Anna Hazare movement against corruption and for a strong Jan Lokpal in the country. Shouting slogans in support of Anna, the protestors staged a rally. The movement is being coordinated by the HP RTI Bureau, Mandi. Meanwhile, six new persons joined the hunger strike with Des Raj today from the Seri Munch today. Doctors have yet to check up his health status even as his fast enters the third day today. President, HP State RTI Bureau, Lawan Thakur said the movement had caught up with the common man. 500 march with candles
KULLU: More than 500 persons marched with candles from Ramshilla to Dhalpur here late Wednesday evening in support of Anna Hazare and his movement against corruption. Activists of the RSS, ABVP, District RTI Bureau, lawyers, professionals, students and other dignitaries were present in the march. Jagganath Sharma, state head, RSS, said their stir would continue till the government accepted the Jan Lokpal Bill drafted by team Anna. Vice-president, All-India BJP Schedule Tribe Morcha, Yuvraj Bodh, district president, BJP, Ramsingh and many senior BJP leaders also participated in the march. Farm varsity extends support
PALAMPUR: Hundreds of students, teachers and non-teaching staff from HP Agriculture University came out in the streets today in support of the Anna movement for a strong Lokpal Bill. They took out procession march in the town. Earlier, last night hundreds of men, women and children took out a candle march in the town. Memorandum submitted
NURPUR: Local citizens, along with members of non-government organisations, today held a peaceful protest demonstration against the arrest of social activist Anna Hazare and expressed solidarity with him for his tirade against corruption. The demonstrators took out a procession from the Shitla Mata temple at Chogan to the office of the SDM. Later, they submitted a memorandum to the President of the country through the SDM seeking action against the erring UPA government. Citizens organise hawan
KANGRA: The local Citizens Forum today organised a hawan at the Nehru Chowk in support of the Anna Hazare. People from all walks of life offered the puran aahooti. The hawan was presided over by Swami Vijay Puri and attended by members of the Senior Citizens Forum, media fraternity, political parties and members of the Bar Association. Those who addressed the gathering were PR Agnihotri, Senior Citizen, Himachal Chand, senior lawyer, Vinay Gupta, advocate, Narender Trehan, Sanatan Dharam Sabha, and Ravi Shankar, local businessman. |
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Dharamsala, August 18 The Himachal Pradesh Government College Teachers Association had given a call for the protest. After the implementation of the UGC regulations, the state government has made it mandatory for lecturers to stay on the college campus for at least 7 hours in a day. They said UGC regulations had come along with the implementation of the new pay scales for college teachers. The association has, however, alleged that the condition was not acceptable to them. They alleged that college lecturers were performing odd-hour duties like examination, culture and sports activities and conducting competitive examinations. If all these activities were taken into consideration, lecturers were working 8 to 10 hours a day. They demanded that the rule, which mandates lecturers to stay on the college campus for at least seven hours a day, should be reduced to 5 hours and just four lectures a day. They also alleged that the government had implemented the UGC regulations with retrospective affect from January 1, 2009. This would put promotions of a lot of college lecturers in the dock. Hundreds of teachers working in government colleges have been waiting for promotions since 2007-08. They have not been promoted, as the government has failed to conduct the meeting of the Departmental Promotional Committees in time. They said it was not possible for college lecturers to fulfil the conditions for promotion as laid in UGC regulations 2010 with retrospective effect. The government should implement the UGC regulations from the date they were notified in state i.e. June 6, 2011. The promotions of lecturers that had been pending should be conducted as per the old rules. The new UGC guidelines also made it mandatory for the lecturers to carry out research work. However, the lecturers body was alleging that the prevailing condition of infrastructure in government colleges was not ideal for research activities. The conditions for research should be modified as per prevailing infrastructure in government colleges, they added. Teachers further alleged that the UGC guidelines had recommended a teacher-student ratio of 1:80. However, at present the teacher-student ratio in government colleges of the state was 125 to 150 that decrease the efficiency of the teaching staff and injustice to students. Though the teachers are resenting the increase in duty hours and other responsibilities given to them under the new UGC guidelines, government officials are maintaining that that have come with the new pay scales and the guidelines have to be implemented. |
Pension to be given through bio-metric system
Shimla, August 18 An official spokesperson said every eligible pensioner would be issued a smart card, which would have the photograph, bio data and finger impression of the beneficiary, besides opening of a saving account He said the bank would appoint customer service providers at a fixed service delivery point in a group of villages according to the number of pensioners in those villages, who would distribute the pension as per the fixed date. He said the pension to those unable to walk would be given at their doorstep and if the pension was not delivered on the fixed date the money would be deposited in the saving account of the concerned person. At present a social security pension of Rs 330 per month was being given. The pension would be given through Punjab National Bank in districts of Mandi, Kullu, Hamirpur, Kinnaur, Kangra, Chamba and Lahaul-Spiti and by UCO Bank in Shimla, Solan, Sirmaur and Bilaspur. |
Workshop on developing organic policy
Shimla, August 18 Inaugurating the workshop, Ram Subhag Singh, Secretary of Agriculture, said the government was laying a special emphasis on organic farming and some innovative schemes were being adopted to promote it. He said farmers could benefit immensely from economically and ecologically sustainable organic farming practices. It would also enhance production besides making pesticides-free products available. He said a mass awareness campaign needed to be devised to popularise organic farming. He added that to standardise organic farming, suitable varieties of existing crops must be identified so as to ensure good production, quality and pest resistance. |
SERC disallows expenses on CFLs
Shimla, August 18 HPSEB Limited had included Rs 28 crore for the first two years of the 2012-14 control period in the aggregate revenue requirement (ARR) and Rs 14 crore in the true-up for the past year. However, the commission has declined to pass on the expenditure to consumers taking into consideration the fact that the CFL scheme was envisaged to availing the benefits of the clean development mechanism (CDM). It directed the power utility to pursue the matter for availing the carbon credits for which the process was started earlier. Moreover, the initiative for providing free CFLs to domestic consumers was taken by the HPSEBL on the direction of the state government and as such the commission urged the state to bear the cost of the scheme. The government had provided interest-free loan of Rs 70 crore to the state power utility for providing four CFLs each to the nearly 17 lakh domestic consumers free of cost. Besides availing the benefit of carbon credit, the state utility was to gain due reduction in energy consumption which would in turn bring down its power purchase cost. The amount was to be returned in five instalments of Rs 14 crore each. HPSEB Limited maintains that the sales to the domestic category have shown a declining trend in the past two years which could be due to increase in usage of CFLs in the state. Citing this, it projected an increase in sales to this category at 5.48 per cent and also projected an increase of 48,435 domestic consumers in 2011, which is an increase of about 3 per cent over the base year of 2010. The commission has acknowledged the contribution of CFLs as an energy conservation initiative. |
Revised gratuity issue echoes in varsity senate meeting
Nauni (Solan), August 18 The issue was raised by non-teaching employees representative RS Thakur before the Governor. Principal Secretary, Horticulture, VC Pharka, terming it as a just demand, assured the employees that they would get their due. Thakur stated that since the liability of revised gratuity for non-teaching employees was less than Rs 5 lakh and the state government had allowed bureaucrats this benefit, whose liability was as high as Rs 10 lakh, their demand should be considered. This was especially so as their counterparts in Himachal Pradesh University (HPU) had already got it. Another crucial issue regarding unnecessary expenditure in lieu of having multiple auditing system was also raised where the members stressed that either the Local Audit Department (LAD) or the Internal Audit Department should be retained, as there was a severe paucity of staff and resources. It would be sufficient to strengthen one of the two audit departments as the university was also under the ambit of Accountant Generals audit. The Governor directed the senate that a copy of the agenda should be circulated among the members so that they could take up issues of concern from their areas. While addressing the senate, she said the diversification of crops in agriculture and horticulture was the need of the hour for farmers. Advocating the need for undertaking continuous research she said research should reach the farm from the lab. The university should modify their extension programmes so that knowledge of the latest research could percolate down to the farmers. Earlier, the Governor laid the foundation stone of a girls hostel which would be constructed at a cost of of Rs 1.50 crore. Vice-Chancellor of university Dr KR Dhiman dwelt upon the universitys achievements in developing human resource and transfer of technology. MLA Gagret Balbir Singh, Principal Secretary, Horticulture, VC Pharka, Secretary to the Governor Anita Tegta, Director, Horticulture, Dr Gurdev Singh, DC, Solan, C Paulrasu were also present. |
HC: Inspect Auckland Tunnel bridge
Shimla, August 18 The court further asked if it is not possible then what are the urgent requirements to be undertaken to make it safe at least for pedestrians. The court also made it clear that the chief engineer would take necessary and urgent repair work. The court passed this order on a petition filed by Tarlok Chauhan on the issue of non-implementation of the plans under the Jawahar Lal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission in Shimla. The petitioner said only one project of the construction of the Auckland Tunnel had been delayed by over three years. |
Shimla, August 18 The incident took place when nearly 15 officials of the company had an altercation with the members of the morcha who were celebrating Independence Day in which Man Singh, a local pradhan, and an official of the company sustained minor injuries. Later, with the intervention of the local police, both parties reached an agreement and agreed not to file any complaint against each other. The manager gave a written assurance that the company would not start any construction activity without the consent of the people. However, villagers feel that the brutal attack on protesters carried out in February 2010 might be repeated. Ratan Chand Sharma, convener of the morcha, blamed the government for the issue and said it had allotted the project without any survey and the people would suffer as there was not enough water in the stream. The Irrigation and Public Health Department had accepted this and still the government was not taking any action in the matter. |
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According to the proposed class action suit that was filed Monday in the U.S. District Court of Illinois Eastern Division, Labor Ready and QPS, two of the staffing agencies that the discounter used in the Chicago area, failed to provide workers assigned to the Wal-Mart stores with required employment information.
The suit also claims that Wal-Mart itself failed to keep accurate records of workers' time. That has made it difficult for workers to make claims that they were not paid by the temporary agencies for all hours worked. The suit also claims that the discounter and its staffing agencies also failed to pay the plaintiffs and others in similar situations a minimum of four hours pay on days when they were contracted for work, but not used for a minimum of four hours as required by Illinois law. That prevented the workers from looking for other jobs.
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According to information provided by the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union in a press release promoting the legal action, the alleged violations began in early 2009 and continue up until the present time.
The suit seeks all unpaid wages for the workers and calls for an injunction against Wal-Mart and its temporary agencies preventing them from future violations of state labor laws.
Dan Fogleman, a Wal-Mart spokesman, said that the company is still reviewing the complaint but that based on the release sent out Monday by the union group one thing is clear: "This litigation is being driven by the same union organizations that have been mischaracterizing several issues about Wal-Mart and are more concerned with creating publicity than with improving workers' rights."
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ANDERSON, S.C. (AP) _ A Seattle man who stabbed his girlfriend to death while visiting his mother in South Carolina has been sentenced to life in prison.
An Anderson County jury found 34-year-old Mauricio Weber guilty Tuesday of murder. Prosecutors say Weber started stabbing 20-year-old Patrice Jones in 2010 because she disrespected him. Weber's mother ran screaming to a nearby apartment for help. An autopsy found Jones was stabbed 14 times with the blows so hard that a bone was broken in her spine. Weber acted as his own attorney and called no witnesses. His trial was delayed for years because he fired at least four of his defense attorneys. Weber told the judge after the guilty verdict that he still maintains his innocence in the killing. |
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Conditions set by MCC are hardly implemented by garbage collectors
One of the tender conditions of the Mangalore City Corporation for civic contractor is to ensure that wastes are segregated into wet and dry at the doorstep.
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He said that many residents refused to pay the fee and said that they themselves would dump in roadside bins. Hence contractors' focused on collecting the trash from streets where people paid.
Rehman, another contractor, said that contractors deployed workers only on localities where people paid the fee.
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Ajith Kumar Hegde S., Commissioner, Mangalore City Corporation, said that unless people segregated waste and gave it to the collectors it would be difficult for officials to make contractors adhere to all conditions.
He said that once waste collectors picked mixed garbage from a house it would be difficult to segregate it on the spot. The onus was on "us" (people) to segregate waste.
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Peet's Coffee & Tea said on Monday it is set to be acquired by Joh. A. Benckiser for about $1 billion, a move that would give Peet's a financial jolt as it competes against larger coffee and tea shops, and which would also broaden the reach of Germany's Reimann family.
The offer price of $73.50 per share in cash represents a premium of nearly 29% over Peet's (PEET) July 20 closing stock price of $57.16.
Joh. A. Benckiser, the investment vehicle for the Reimann family of Germany, owns stakes in companies such as household products maker Reckitt Benckiser (RBGPY.PK) and fragrance and cosmetics company Coty.
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Re: 2D & 3D Autocad The perfect thread necromancy storm... - A 5 year old, useless thread - resurrected by a first time poster - who had absolutely nothing worth while to post.
Re: 2D & 3D Autocad akuku got 2 replies right? LOL Some people feel so small that the 2 replies this poster has gotten (now 3) improve their self image. And in all fairness Fred, it might not have ever ocurred to the OP of this thread to 'use the manual'. :rofl:
Re: 2D & 3D Autocad I'm not sure what to make of the last three post, even if the thread is old, the question was valid, one answer produced two links that are still active and good. Someone like me sees this today and it produces a positive results just as helpful as if it was posted yesterday. I have found a lot of good help and study info from responses, by someone, to threads several years old that I would never have known were in the history of PF. Ron
Re: 2D & 3D Autocad I agree Ron, but if I were akuku, I wouldn't have posted unless the info I found in this thread was useful to me. Then I would have explained this. It looks to me like akuku simply wanted to belittle someone and see the word 'akuku' on the internet.
Re: 2D & 3D Autocad A Haiku for Akuku? (Yes, I also contributed absolutely nothing to this thread, save for increasing my post count--unless this message/thread gets deleted).
Re: 2D & 3D Autocad Ahem, just in case someone might find them useful... I got pretty good mileage out of the Autocad for dummies books. I was however an absolute beginner.
Re: 2D & 3D Autocad AutoCAD 3D is not very useful IMO. If you are a designer, get into a 3D modeling software. Inventor, Solidworks, Pro-E, Solidedge. If you are a student you should be able to pick up a student version of one of these cheap. Much more useful than AutoCAD.


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I had attended these shows several years ago, and was looking forward to a similar experience. There was no "exhibits" like in years past, was just like going to a jewelry mall except at Reliant Center you had to walk the entire width of the building just to get to the show. Then walk back again after walking all over the hall.
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Stop me if you've heard this one before: Russian man goes to dump to find old scrap metal, bear sees man and charges him, man throws old computer at bear and wins the battle.
Just sitting there on a road trip and doing nothing is terrible for your body, thankfully these drunk Ruskis figured out how to get their burn on while driving, or something like that.
So he doesn't display any incredible physical prowess, but I'll be damned if that's not at least one degree of Kevin Bacon away from Liam Neeson's family.
Here we see a typical Russian traffic accident.
This hamster has been trained to do chores that even young children aren't capable of, putting things back in their proper places.
This video truly has all the parts I look for in my viral videos du jour: Drunk Russians, shenanigans, and people making fools of themselves.
Every day we thank our lucky stars and stripes that the people of Mother Russia all have dashboard cams in their cars, and today we see an incredible display of road rage.
How can we expect these Russians to ever get any work done with the vodka flowing like the salmon of Capistrano.
This red squirrel chasing these Russian military members around like little children is OBVIOUSLY a metaphor for the power of Capitalism, right.


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Mac OS X Lion Can Run in Chrome OS-Like Browser Only Mode
While all the focus has been the many new features found in iOS 5 Beta, Apple also released a new developer beta of Mac OS X Lion last week. Many of Mac OS X Lion's features have been known for months, but Apple has snuck in at least one interesting new feature called "Restart to Safari". According to a tipster, on the user lock screen, you are given the option to "Restart to Safari" rather than logging in. This allows you to boot the computer into just the web browser and nothing else. This browser only mode allows unauthorized users to simply browse the web through Safari rather than having access to any personal files or other applications on the machine. Of course with Lion's new auto-save and application restore feature, returning users will find themselves back at the same place they were before the restart. This browser-only mode is reminiscent of Google's lightweight Chrome OS which is designed to offer the user a web-only based operating system. Apple's motivations for offering such a browser-only mode differs from Google's. Google is partnering with manufacturers in order to build Chrome OS only laptops that offer cheap browser-only machines. Apple's not likely to be going that route with Mac OS X Lion but is instead offering a nice sandboxed mode so Lion can easily act as a secure and anonymous web kiosk. Article Link: Mac OS X Lion Can Run in Chrome OS-Like Browser Only Mode |
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THIS > Chrome book
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Jun 12, 2011, 03:46 AM | #3 |
MS remote app
Pleas let someone try to use an MS remote app. ( you know, the internet distributed apps...)
If this works, I will change our company's infra structure. Mac mini clients, only safarilogon + remote cms and office app. Thats about 50 clients who dont need more than that 10 heavy users can get a normal useracount on the mac, and use rdp to connect to an MS workplace. I can invest in apple hardware NOW... To change completly in the future. Our CMS software is bieng rewritten for osx as we speak.. So in 2 year its testetd + we got the hardware = we leave MS except for exchange and office for mac. Perfect! |
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Jun 12, 2011, 03:51 AM | #4 |
I wonder if a Mac running this browser only mode would have better battery life than running OSX?
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Jun 12, 2011, 03:52 AM | #5 |
This would be great for iOS too. If you want to allow people to use your iPad or iPhone but dont want them to go to your email this would be quite handy.
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Jun 12, 2011, 03:56 AM | #6 |
Am I reading this wrong or could anyone who used my Mac now have full access to the internet on it? (Still drunk from last night ha!)
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Jun 12, 2011, 03:58 AM | #7 |
Wow! I wonder how much of the OS is running? Maybe all... this is a lock-down feature, not resource saver.
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Jun 12, 2011, 04:05 AM | #8 |
@MacRumors: The official name for this new operating system is now "OS X Lion" and NOT "Mac OS X Lion". Apple dropped the "Mac" in front of it.
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Jun 12, 2011, 04:05 AM | #10 |
Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 4_3_3 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/533.17.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0.2 Mobile/8J2 Safari/6533.18.5)
This was actually an advertised feature. It was mentioned as part of the "find my mac" feature to trick potential thieves into using the Internet whilst stopping them from gaining access to any personal files. |
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Jun 12, 2011, 04:17 AM | #11 |
Wow this is pretty nice, i hope battery life improves then.
i have also a question, does somebody know a program or anything to only watch movies on you macbook pro, without the whole OS working/booting, so you can have a longer battery power, so more movies to watch? or will this be integrated also in OS X lion? |
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Jun 12, 2011, 04:20 AM | #12 |
So when Apple will close the system completely, and we could install App Store Apps only, we could use the Browser only mode for Jailbreakme.com . YAY!
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Jun 12, 2011, 04:21 AM | #13 |
This is a great idea. I work from my Macbook Air so have to always have a regularly changing password set, however it's also my personal computer and sometimes my girlfriend wants to quickly check something online. This is a good way for her to use the web without needing to remember a constantly changing password.
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Jun 12, 2011, 04:23 AM | #14 |
Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 4_3_3 like Mac OS X; nl-nl) AppleWebKit/533.17.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0.2 Mobile/8J2 Safari/6533.18.5)
It's not that I'm gonna use that a lot, but it's a nice extra. |
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Jun 12, 2011, 04:38 AM | #15 |
Great feature but how do I use it?
I've booted into my Lion DP4 partition to try it out but I can't find the option to restart into Safari. It's not in the Lock Screen or the Login Window. Did the "tipster" have any further details? |
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Jun 12, 2011, 04:40 AM | #16 |
What's even better is that Safari Only mode runs not from the primary partition but from the recovery partition. This means that you can use Safari even if your entire system crashes or anything happens to it. That's very useful to get help or do emergency communication.
So unless you have a hardware failure, you will ALWAYS have access to the net.
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Jun 12, 2011, 04:47 AM | #17 |
+1 can't find it anywhere on the lock screen.
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Jun 12, 2011, 04:51 AM | #18 |
Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 3_1_3 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/528.18 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Mobile/7E18 Safari/528.16)
Finally, Wife Mode! Now when she wants to use my computer for a minute to surf, she won't accidentally mess up any of my important (porn) files. |
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Jun 12, 2011, 04:53 AM | #19 |
Do Extensions work? How about Flash?
I assume it has access to a subset of fonts? What about Java? So many questions
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Jun 12, 2011, 04:53 AM | #20 |
It is not on the login screen, but the lock screen.
Set a password, wait for your computer to lock and the option will be on the screen where it asks for your password. |
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Logon Screen
sigh i don't have a dev account |
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Jun 12, 2011, 05:03 AM | #22 |
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Jun 12, 2011, 05:08 AM | #23 |
Anyone here who can find it? (I can't either)
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Jun 12, 2011, 05:09 AM | #24 |
My little Asus netbook has the same feature called express gate cloud os.
You can press a button on the keyboard and it turns on quickly to the asus os that lets you use the internet and some programs. To be honest, I don't use it since I prefer to just turn on the netbook and have access to all of its features. |
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The MS platform is actually very well suited for enterprises. That's why so many enterprises use it. You would be insane to leave all that for kiosk mode. Apple is not an enterprise oriented company and care little for their enterprise customers. A switch from MS to Apple entails a lot of extra risk and should be justified with some heavy benefits. The benefit of kiosk mode? Please |
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So, on a new episode of the Discovery channel's Son's of Guns show last night, they made the "first" AK Sniper Rifle, capable of accurate 1000 yard shots, and what's making me weirded out is that the AK being around for like 60 years(?) no one has made a 1000 yard AK? What they did was just take the best part of the AK and A Sniper and mixed them. Don't get me wrong it was freaking sweet but I didn't know what it was the "first", I thought the Dragunov was an AK sniper but anyways, what do you guys think of that? ill try to find a video of the episode or pictures of the gun they made edit: heres the website and page of the AK, my Flashplayer isn't updated enough to watch the videos but try it outhttp://dsc.discovery.com/videos/sons-of-guns-ak-sniper-rifle-videos/
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That was what I was thinking, maybe they were talking about a modern one or something, at the end they wanted like $2800 for it i think
At first I thought this show was going somewhere. Now it's turned to fertilizer. The same with all the shows, swamp people, one man army, So what else can they come up with to make the american public look like the idiots they are on these shows........P S Here we have a Lic. gun dealer in Baton Rouge fireing off lethal projectiles in his parking lot.......Dumb red neck or Dumb coonass.....
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You notice they didn't say what caliber? I heard it was based on the Saiga .308. And no one is talking about the hand rolled round that made the shot. It was build with an aluminum bedding block behind the gasblock and tied into the receiver and trunnion. The barrel is free-float from the gasblock forward. Harmonic's and stability made the 1,000 yard shot doable along with an experienced shooter on the trigger. And the show got the price wrong. They had $3,800.00 into the build.
I like how everything they shoot EXPLODES in true hollywood fashion. Yeah ,that's what guns can do ,joe public.........
I really tried to have a positive outlook on this show as well, but it is quickly fading. The triple AR was a joke too. Just way too out there and impractical. I'm gonna watch a few more episodes in hopes that they do some real projects that demonstrate some craftsmanship, but I don't see it.


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Hi there,
we are a small Team of independend developers from berlin. (one coder, one designer) Years ago we published a game called Baktinet. A Dr. Mario Puzzle Game with multiplayer-option for Windows. You can find it with help of Google "Baktinet".
Now we adaptet the game for Windows Phone. Beacause we love our Windows Phones :)
The Reason is simple: good dev. tools, one platform and a special love for wp7 with the great ui.
So if you are interested in "turning some Pills" to kill Bakties, try Baktinet 2.
The game offers a free trial and a buyable full version.
If you have any Questions or Feedback, you can contact me here or at our Homepage Baktinet2.com
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We hope you like it, and we are looking forward to create more Wp7 Apps :)
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the grey Pills are "Arteriosklerosis" Pills. You can remove them by stacking 6 equal colors on them. Or you can use them as Dynamite ...
look we have a "turorial" video for every level on youtube:
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sorry for my bad english, i am from germany :) - 08-30-2011, 09:58 AM #4
i played the App a lot. its definetly a 5/5 Stars App!!!
but i can report two little bugs: 1. the app does not stop when a call is coming in.
2. the music-volume is not resetted after playing.
whats the feature of the colon level? are there regrowing bakties?
is a multyplayer planned?
alan - 09-02-2011, 02:46 PM #5
this saturday we will fix some bugs in baktinet 2. a multiplayer ist planned. we are testing to connect two or up to 4 phones to play against each other.
we dont have experiences in creating a multiplayer mode for wp7. maybe someone can give us a tutorial that shows how to build up a server structure.
stay tuned. - 09-24-2011, 03:27 PM #6
Hey Baktifriends,
Baktinet 2 dropped from 1,99 to 0,99.
We added some nice features:
Baktinet is now resumeable: You can pause the game whenever yout need to, and continue at the same Level.
Baktinet pauses at a incoming call.
The Sound-options allow to set the sound individually.
The highscore upload to the baktifriends webside baktinet2.com works better
a rate button added to get more feedback ;)
We hope you like the probably best "Dr. Mario-Clone" in the Marketplace.
News coming with Mango:
Starting in Oktober we will create a real Multiplayer Baktinet edition. So you can play against other "Dr.s".
We planned to connect up to 4 Phone 7 devices ...
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Length: | 22.88 miles |
Map: | Route Map of M-10 |
Notes: | The freeway portion of M-10 in Detroit and Southfield is officially known as the John C. Lodge Freeway, however several of the route's former names are still used by some. The actual "John C. Lodge Expwy" originally only ran from Downtown Detroit out to the "Linwood Curve," halfway between the Davison and Wyoming Ave. A surface roadway—Northwestern Hwy—traditionally ran from Wyoming Ave northwesterly out of the city and into Oakland Co. When the freeway was extended in the early 1960s, the portion from the "Linwood Curve" west through the "Wyoming Curve," then northwesterly along the path of Northwestern Hwy to 8 Mile Rd was named "James Couzens Expwy." As the freeway was extended from 8 Mile Rd to Telegraph along Northwestern Hwy, the new freeway retained the name "Northwestern Hwy." It wasn't until the 1980s that MDOT decided to—officially or unofficially—rename the entire freeway the "John C. Lodge Frwy" from downtown Detroit to Telegraph Rd. Ironically, though, the service drives along M-10/John C. Lodge Frwy still retain their original names (as service drives, anyway). From downtown to Wyoming Ave, the service drives are named "John C. Lodge," from Wyoming to 8 Mile, the service drives as" James Couzens," and from 8 Mile to Telegraph, they're known as "Northwestern Hwy." |
As much as the freeway portion of today's M-10 has changed names over the years, the non-freeway divided highway portion has always been named "Northwestern Hwy." In addition, a Northwestern Hwy extension was proposed to connect the current end of Northwestern at Orchard Lake Rd in West Bloomfield Twp with the proposed "Fenton-Clio Expressway" at Fenton. (The "F.C.E." is today's US-23 in Genesee Co.). The dashed line showing the proposed Northwestern Extension appeared on maps for many years, disappearing in the early 1970s. When I-275 was proposed as a complete bypass of Metropolitan Detroit, the Northwestern Hwy extension was resurrected as a full-freeway connection between Orchard Lake Rd and the I-275 freeway between 15 Mile (Maple) Rd and Pontiac Tr near Walled Lake. With the tabling and abandonment of the plans to complete I-275, the Northwestern Extension has been on and off for many years. In the late-1990s and early '00s, MDOT hired a consultant to study the possibilities for the "Northwestern Corridor," mostly at the behest of the Road Commission for Oakland County. (See below.) However, as the land in the path of the original "Northwestern Extension" has been sold off for development, the originally-proposed freeway connection has been relegated to the history books. | |
The "Northwestern Connector Study" in Oakland County was conducted in the 2000s by consultants DLZ Corp. The preferred alternative included widening Orchard Lake Rd from a five-lane road into a six-lane boulevard, widening Maple (15 Mile) Rd into a four-lane boulevard, widening 14 Mile Rd into three-lanes, and placing eleven roundabouts on each of the above roads to replace signalized intersections! While the widening portions of the plan may help reduce congestion some, it remains to be seen if the citizens of Oakland Co will be able to handle eleven roundabouts—especially ones on a six-lane boulevard! | |
According to The Detroit News' Tom Greenwood in his column on April 27, 2000, the portion of the M-10/Lodge Frwy in Southfield named the Adler Memorial Highway was named in honor of Rabbi Morris Adler who died after being shot by a deranged gunman in front of his congregation at Temple Shaarey Zedek on March 11, 1966. | |
The freeway portion of today's M-10 actually had no route designation when the first portion of the John C Lodge Expwy opened to traffic in the 1950s. Since it was constructed initially by the Wayne County Road Commission, it was a locally-maintained freeway. The first route number to be assigned to the Lodge was US-12 in 1956 when it was designated along the newly-completed Edsel Ford Frwy (now a portion of I-94). US-12 turned southerly along the Lodge from the Edsel Ford to end in downtown Detroit. In 1960, some Michigan State Highway Dept planning maps showed the US-10 designation being moved over to the I-75/Walter P Chrysler Frwy route (when completed), with Woodward Ave bearing a BUS US-10 designation and the John C Lodge Frwy not bearing any route number north of the Edsel Ford. The next route designation to grace the Lodge Frwy was BS I-696 (Business Spur I-696) in c.1964 when the I-696/Walter P Reuther Frwy was completed from the west, ending at Northwestern Hwy in Southfield. The BS I-696 designation began at the end of I-696 and continued southeasterly via today's John C Lodge Frwy into downtown Detroit. This was the first time a route designation had been applied to all of the Lodge. Then in 1970, the entire freeway was incorporated as part of US-10, which had been removed from parallel Woodward Ave, and the BS I-696 designation was removed. Finally, in the late-1980s (concurrent with a major reconstruction of the Lodge in Detroit), when the US-10 designation was truncated at Bay City, the Lodge was redesignated M-10, which it is today. | |
For the first time in over fifty years, exit numbers began appearing on the John C Lodge Frwy in Detroit in April 2005. In the 1970s and early-1980s, MDOT refrained from posting exit numbers on the Lodge interchanges as the freeway was part of the route of US-10, which itself was not constructed as freeway from its "zero-point" at Ludington. When US-10 was truncated back to Bay City in 1986, the M-10 designation was assigned to the Lodge which meant both M-10's and the Lodge's "zero-point" were now the same, at Jefferson Ave & Randolph St in downtown Detroit. However, as part of their "Lodgability" reconstruction of the freeway in the late-1980s, MDOT chose not to erect exit numbers at that time. Assumedly as part of a freeway guide sign replacement program, the department decided to finally include the exit numbers during 2005. This leaves the M-8/Davison Frwy as the only freeway in Detroit without numbered interchanges. | |
History: | 1920s – Prior to the creation of the US Highway system in the mid-1920s, the early version of M-10 begins at the Ohio state line south of Erie, runs northerly along Telegraph Rd to Dearborn, then easterly on Michigan Ave into downtown Detroit. From there, M-10 runs northwesterly through Flint, Saginaw and Bay City roughly along the later route of US-10. From Bay City, M-10 runs roughly along the later route of US-23 along the Lake Huron shore, ending in Mackinaw City. |
1926 – The following US Highways are routed over portions of M-10 in Michigan: | |
1928 – Just two years after the decommissioning of M-10 in Michigan (due to the coming of the US Highway system), the M-10 designation is reinstated. US-10 is realigned to utilize the new eastern bypass of the city of Flint, which is named "Dort Hwy" soon after; Dort was an early pioneer in the automobile industry in Flint, parterning with William Durant, the founder of General Motors, at one time. The former route of US-10 through Flint is redesignated as M-10, ironically reviving a highway designation which existed along this route two years earlier, prior to the coming of US-10! | |
1941-42 – In late 1941 or early 1942, the M-10 designation through the City of Flint is replaced by a brand-new BUS US-10 designation, resulting is the absence of the M-10 designation from Michigan for almost 50 years. | |
1986-87 – A third incarnation of M-10 debuts when the US-10 designation is scaled back from downtown Detroit to end in Bay City. The former US-10 from I-75/Fisher Fwy to the I-696 & US-24 interchange in Southfield is redesignated as M-10. Northwestern Hwy from this point northwest to Orchard Lake Rd in West Bloomfield Twp is redesignated from M-4 to M-10. During the summers of 1986 and 1987, the John C Lodge Frwy is completely reconstructed from downtown Detroit to Wyoming Ave in northwest Detroit, and the M-10 shields are erected upon completion of the project. | |
1987 – The southernmost portion of the John C Lodge Frwy from I-75/Fisher Frwy into downtown Detroit is officially redesignated from BS I-375 (Business Spur I-375) to M-10. It seems that no BS I-375 markers were actually erected along this route, and the old US-10 route markers were swapped out for new M-10 markers at this time. | |
2005 (Apr) – For the first time in over fifty years, exit numbers begin appearing on the John C Lodge Frwy in Detroit. (See note above for details.) | |
Controlled-Access: | Freeway: From Cobo Center in downtown Detroit to the I-696/US-24 interchange in Southfield (specifically at Beck Rd). |
Expressway: None. | |
NHS: | The entire length of M-10 is part of the National Highway System (NHS). |
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Two issues came to my attention this week. Though they might not seem to have a connection, they do. That connection concerns the First Amendment of the Constitution, public debate and truthfulness of the press. The press, in this case, includes the traditional and nontraditional sources that provide either/or political or conspiratorial news, some to the extreme. Both issues came to me through the National Conference of Editorial Writers.
The first, a threaded discussion, concerns a libel suit against the Anniston (Ala.) Star newspaper. That suit involves a city official claiming libel for an article written about him that, at least from my point, was most likely factually correct.
Anniston Star editor Bob Davis and I talked about the libel suit. The question concerns Anniston City Councilman Ben Little and a rumored affair with contractor Yolanda Jackson, whether the newspaper confirmed the allegations provided by another councilman and whether the paper committed the libelous act of "Tort-by-Outrage," defined as when one party, "by extreme and outrageous conduct intentionally or recklessly causes severe emotional distress." The case was originally dismissed under a summary judgment: no evidence.
In returning the case to the lower court, the Alabama Court of Civil Appeals cited U.S. Supreme Court's New York Times v. Sullivan, that "'clear and convincing' evidence requirement applies," and "the record could support [that] reasonable jury" could find for or against the plaintiff. The upper court found that, "the trial court erred" in its decision by its summary judgment.
What the Alabama upper court did not cite was another part of the Supreme Court decision. "(W)e consider (NYT v. Sullivan) against the background of a profound national commitment to the principle that debate on public issues should be uninhibited, robust, and wide-open, and that it may well include vehement, caustic, and sometimes unpleasantly sharp attacks on government and public officials."
How open should public debate be, even if it goes "caustic?" We will have to wait and see.
The second issue is a Houston Chronicle article concerning a member of faculty at the Texas A&M system's Tarleton State University who was told that if he teaches his students how to use the Texas Public Information Act, he could be fired.
Dan Malone, an instructor at Tarleton State, is also a co-chair of the Light of Day Project, a program run by the Freedom of Information Foundation of Texas.
Students are instructed on the use of public information laws and "submit Texas Public Information Act requests to various governmental agencies, including universities."
There seems to be a small problem. The Texas A&M system rule states, "A faculty member can't direct students to submit a public information request to Tarleton or any other member of the A&M system." Evidently, A&M is above the law.
I spoke with MU associate professor Charles Davis, who works under a grant from the John L. Knight Foundation for the National Freedom of Information Coalition. He told me that the libel suit was a "bizarre outlier," and there is not a rule even remotely like this anywhere.
What do these two law suits have in common? Why should you care?
Both revive my earliest memories of a government official attacking the Fourth Estate. Spiro Agnew, Nixon's first vice president, upset by how the press treated both the president and the United States' continuation of the war in Vietnam. For the younger crowd, Agnew described the press as "[a] tiny and closed fraternity of privileged men, elected by no one, and enjoying a monopoly sanctioned and licensed by government," and said, "Some newspapers are fit only to line the bottom of bird cages." My bird loves the other Columbia paper.
There is a growing distrust in our news services by the public, government and citizens. Distrust that someone might be telling the "truth" through honest and exacting research. The "truth," it seems, is something too many citizens do not want to hear.
The Constitution (Agnew's bane) gave the press an important role in the governing of the United States: To keep public officials honest and the citizens informed. Yet distrust of the press, its real or perceived liberal or conservative biases, has caused only further distrust on our government. And we, the press, have done little to fix the problem.
David Rosman is an award-winning editor, writer, professional speaker and college instructor in communications, ethics, business and politics. You can read more of David's commentaries at InkandVoice.com and New York Journal of Books.


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Released: Oct 01st, 2000
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Director: Max "Hardcore" Steiner
Dillon (I), Mirage, Cloey Adams
Critical Rating: AAA 1/2
Genre: Gonzo
Saying it is another Max Hardcore feature says it all. Honest.
As usual, Max doesn't necessarily mail the envelope, but he surely knows how to push it. His cover girl Mirage takes it all in stride from A2M to plenty of wide-open anal, getting adorned with lipstick by Max, oral, and the usual open mouth facial. Cloey Adams gets spit upon, slapped, and responds with some anal reverse cowgirl but no visible money shot. That'll teach him.
The best scene is the last as Dillon gets it from Max in a public restroom and on an outside balcony. She makes up for the lack of a cum shot in the previous scene by really taking a load on the face after A2M and the other expected Hardcore prerequisites for nasty sex.